First half okay, second half terrible

Rating: 4/10 (28 December 2009)

The Island could have been a good flick.
The dystopian setting of the first part of the movie was actually quite good, and looked promising. Sadly as soon as the two clones arrive on the surface (and are surprisingly smart and comfortable in the real world they had never seen before), the movie goes downhill so fast and so badly you almost wonder if it's the same movie, or if they just put the final part of another one.
From a somewhat disturbing and intriguing dystopian set to a bombastic action movie in the blink of an eye, with very little psychological development and too much mindless action.
Once again, a wasted chance and a wasted half-good (yet not entirely new, to put it mildly) plot.
But in truth when the director is Michael Bay, what else could we expect? He would have managed to turn 1984 into a car-chase, explosions-filled piece of shiny crap...
The Island is not a terrible movie, but surely disappointing considering the premise, the development and the ending.